rato»
G raphic
NEWBERG, YAM H ILL
POSED HIGHWAY
tho «tostim i to be bold aant month.
TBs m ilitary Importance o f this
highway has long been, realised by
the m ilitary authorities o f sur gov
ernment. Events in Europe during
tho war d ea rly demonstrated that
transportation afforded by the high
way systems o f Europe wss o f ines
tim able vaine In the suceeasful pros
ecution o f the war. the value o f tho
highways far sxeoodlng the valga o f
the railways or o f say other method
o f transportation.
I f the Roosevelt M ilitary Highway
measure carries, the fact that tbs
people o f Oregon have taken tho
in itiative In the nutter and have
made a substantial contribution to
tho project, should and w ill appeal
do Congress It is perfectly safe to
prediet that a spadai appropriation
w ftt bo made by Congress to match
our state funds.
The m ilitary Importance o f this
project is not all that is to bo con
sidered. I t w ill develop thousands
o f seres o f Oregon’s most fertH s
countlM In lb * Irrigation b ill to bo
voted on In Jane entitled "S tate
Bond Payment of Irrigation and
Drainage Bend Interest.” It Memo
to be tbe dlopoeltlon everywhere In
the coaat districts to support this
worthy measure, which provides for
tbe state guarantee o f InterM t on
Irrigation
and drainage district
bonds tor fir e year* with a provi
sion fo r re-payment. This support
la perhaps due to the fact that a
number of our dairymen are inter
ested in Eastern Oregon a lfalfa lands
and, as above stated, many are look
in g to that section of Oregon for
their supplies o f bay and grain, but
in a broader sense tbe support semes
from a feelin g that tbe irrigation
districts o f Bastern Oregon are great
assets o f tbe state and that the state
can w ell afford to use its credit to
assist in the development o f this
wonderful region.
So let us work together and vote
solidly fo r these two measures which
are o f such great importance to tbs
whole state o f Oregon. An increase
in hay and grain production in Cen
tral Oregon. Bastern Oregon and the
W illam ette T a lley confers a direct
benefit upon the dairymen o f the
coast; hence we o f the coast w ill
support any reasonable measure to
aid irrigation and drainage, both
from our self lab interests an d'from
our desires to see these great Irri
gation and drainage reclamation
projects o f the W illam ette V alley.
Central and Bastern Oregon devel
oped. The Roosevelt H ighway w ill
provide a continually enlarging
home market for the W illam ette
Valley and H asten and Central Ore
gon hay and grain producers; there
fore they should support the bond
measure to construct It, both from
selfish motives and from state pride.
The Itcascra lt H ighway is a m ilitary
necessity; it also contains vast ese-
nomic possibilities for the state o f
Oregon. Therefpre every good ctti-
sen w ill support It. Every cltlasq
Indirectly, w ill receive commercial
benefit from it; every patriotic
Amerieah cittsen must see the m ili
tary value and necessity for i t So
let us all join hands across the
mountains and work untiringly and
vote unitedly, unanimously fo r tho
Roosevelt M ilitary Highway.
Respectfully.
la the coast counties, where im
F. R. Beals.
proved fond for soiling aad grasing
purposes is valued at from three to
flv o hundred dollars per acre, dairy
men find it unprofitable to raise
hay on their valuable lands and are
relyin g more and more on tho W il
At her home at 508 W illam ette
lamette valley farm er and the East
street,
Mrs. A. E. H all gave her
ern Oregon alfalfa producer to sup
daughter,
Lola, a birthday party on
ply them with the hay and grain
they consume. The coast territory Saturday /evening o f last week, it
furnishing a market for these In being her thirteenth birthday anni
terior products Is poorly served by versary. The usual games were in
roads. This makes the cost o f trans dulged In end lee cream and cake
portation on merchandise like hay were served.
Those In attendance were;
and grain prohibitive. The cost o f
Newberg— Therman Evans, Mural
local distribution is so great that
Fortune,
A lvin Christie, Perry Ful
many dairymen find It necessary to
mer,
Roy
Bradley, M arie H ill, Luelle
rates their own hay. or a large por
tion o f it. This reduces the s I m o f Stout, Edith Lamb, Constance Ste
their herds and the number of tbelr vens. Mae Shepherd, Eos M artin,
bogs and thus m aterially lessens Ethel Bates, Mahle Fortune, Grace
their consumption o f hay and grain. Riley, M yrtle Jacobson, Thelma Jac
For example, the cost o f transport obson.
Chehalem Center— Bennie Shlreo,
in g s ton o f hay or grain from T illa
Raymond
Johnson. BUI Ralston. E l
mook City, the railroad terminus in
don
Everest,
Barton Graves, AUsn
Tillam ook county, to certain o f the
Staley.
Everett
Morgan, Bessie Ral
richest dairy districts is tan dollars
a ton. The RooM velt highway would ston, Nema Morgan, Minnie Ralston,
reduce this cost by sight dollars or Edna Ralston, Mary belle Graves,
more per ton. The conclusion Is ob Lucy Ralston, Edith Fort. Emma
vious.
These farmers would in Fort, Joe H ell, Mr. and Mrs. L. R.
crease their herds, rates mors hogs, Ralston.
and thus double or treble tho
amount o f hay and grain they now
consume.
aad o f sustaining a forge population.
This change from wild, non-produc
tive regions to prosperous commun
ities w ill bring added population,
augmented wealth and a tremendous
increase In assessed valuation, a ll o f
which w ill be enduring assets to the
Under the present advene condi
tions Tillam ook county alone, w ith
Its 19,000 dairy cattle and its large
number o f hogs, purchases annually
c I om to a half m illion dollars worth
o f imported hay and grain. When
the Roosevelt H ighway is completed,
these consumers w ill draw heavily
upon the W illam ette V alley aad
Bastern Oregon hay and grain dis
tricts fo r these supplies. It is safe
to say that in the immediate future,
the coast counties o f Oregon, with
the expansion o f ths dairy industry
which the highway w ill bring about,
would furnish s steady aad ever in
creasing market* fo r Eastern Oregon
and W illam ette V alley produets to
the extent o f three and a h alf m illion
dollars or more annually.
In this connection I wish to say
I find a great deal o f Interest among
the, people throughout. the ooast
The many friends o f Rev. George
H. Lee, pastor o f the P resbyterian
church, has been chosen as a com
missioner to attend tho Presbyterian
General Assembly which meets Ip
St. Louis May 19-34.
On his way he w ill preach next
Sunday at the Fourth Presbyterian
church in Spokane. Sunday, May
31. he expects to preach in Cincin
nati, hie former home town in' Ohio,
and on May 38 he hopes to attend
the th irty-fifth reunion o f hte sem
inary elaaa at H artford. Connecticut»
A fter supplying various pulpits In
New England and Pittsburg, aad
visitin g hte eon, Charles, he « » paste
to attend the fortieth reunion o f hte
college class at W iliam s College, re
turning hoam the letter part o f June
or the first o f Jnly.
MATTER OF VERY
VITAL INTI
To tbe Editor— H aving been pres
ent at various good roads meetings
where a wide divergence o f opinion
prevailed, I am led to wonder I f the
dfflerent ideas that have been ex
pressed can so cloud the one point
in view that the whole highway bet
terment scheme w ill go down to de
feat through lack o f g sa esons co
operation. This would be a calamity.
Every voter realises that the M td
program hinges on the success o f the
9100,000 bond issue upon which xfc
are to vote June 3rd. I f the people
o f the county vote bonds, the rends
which have boon designated by t t »
State H ighway Commission w in he
permanently improved.
W e W^U
spend the sum above named and tpe
state w ill match this by a sum A p
proxim ately six times as great. Phr
every dollar that the people o f Ygm-
h ill county pnt Into the road ftp # ,
we w ill get fiv e dollars from o p k
sources, mainly from the automobile
and gmsoline tax, o f which tho agfo-
mobtllsts o f Yam hill county B ffe
contributed th eir share.
I f we do not prepare the roadlp de
for these projects as mapped out,
our share o f the state funds w ill go
to some other county more g i n -
prising, whose gain w ill he o u rjfar-
m anent lose. No doubt every utter
Is aware o f this, bat it may bo |hat
all have not pondered over the pos
sibility o f turning out a 95 m eat
on the range and having him b a n
into s 930 calf, all yours aad free
from Incumbrance, lees the cost a l
the pig.
W e have approxim ately on# thon-
OREGON. THURSDAY. M AY 8. 1918
SS' DAY AT
OLD CHAMPOEG
I haven’t seen him yet.
So far there has been over thirty
Newbergers through here and I ex
pect more soon.
W e serve, or rather, the boys help
themselves, to coffee, cookies, or
sandwiches, which, we have on hand
a ll the time and all enjoy themselves
a lot here.
Very sincerely,
A. Ruth Gilbert.
The elements did their best on
, last Saturday and the sun shown
brightly on the large gathering o f
people assembled on the banks o f
the beautiful W illam ette at old
Champoeg to celebrate "Founders’
Mrs. Thos. L. Cummings, who
Day,’’ so named In honor o f tho moved to Portland a year or mors
sturdy group o f pioneer settlers who ago, was hostess last Monday to-
gathered on that spot on May 1, members o f Newberg's P. B. O. Chap
1343, to take the first steps toward ter, o f which she Is a member.
form ing a provisional government Tboee able to accept tho Invitation
for the great Pacific Northwest Included MesdantM B. C. Baird, R.
country, comprising what is now M. Thurston, M innie W . Cooper,
Oregon. Washington, Idaho and a W esley Boyes, S. F . W allace, A. H.
part of Montana.
Dean, Lyle Palmer. George Luts, F.
A t this tim e and fo r many years Bckeraon, Francis Morris, Oliver
thereafter Champoeg was a place o f Evans and Miss Colby.
,
considerable importance but now,
Mrs. Cummings, assisted by Mrs.
were it not for these annual meet Boyes, served an elaborate luncheon
ings, It would almost be forgotten, at one o’clock, tho other guests be
since there are no business houses ing Mrs. Cummings aad Mrs. Boyes*
there to speak of.
mother. Mrs. Broulllette, Whet for
Many people arrived at the merly lived In Newberg, aad Mrs. J.
grounds In the forenoon by auto W. Ferguson, o f Portland, who In
mobiles and in fam ily groups ate stituted Chapter L more than four
tbelr lunches in the old tim e picnic years ago.
style. The steamer Pomona, bring
A social hour follow ed tho lunch
ing the Portland and Oregon C ity eon. after which the regular monthly
people, did not ’ arrive until about 9 meeting o f tho Chapter was held.
o’clock In tho afternoon, when tho
The next regular m eeting o f L
program began, with Judge P. H. w ill he .hold wl|h Mrs. Boyes at her
D’Arcy, o f 8alem, acting as chalr- suburban . borne southeast o f town,
Ex-Governor T. T. Geer was the
first speaker, follow in g tke Intro
duction o f the sons and daughters
of thé men who took part in the
famous masting, to tho assembly.
Mr. Geer told us tho' story o f Cham
poeg la his Interesting way, which
was greatly appreciated.
Some o f the/other speakers were
John U. Smith, o f Newberg, Wm.
on Tuesday, May 30, at which time
an initiation w ill occur.
The follow in g news note from
Salem w ill be read w ith Interest .by
the many Newberg friends o f the B.
C. Miles fam ily:
V
nated by the State Highway Com-j o f the Oregon Journal. Mrs. Edith
mission hard surfaced and out Of th e ' T o ile r Weatherred.
way o f future expense, together with ! Governor Oleott .eras introduced
more than 30 miles at postroad,1 and interested his hearers greatly
which, through the join t co-opera- by reading a number o f public doc-
tion o f property owners along the uments-taken from the archives o f
route, and the County Court and the state, which are priceless records
8tate Highway Commission was con- o f tbe early doings o f officials,
verted into s designated paved road, among them being many bearing
part now completed and another dates as ter back as 1844 and-slgned
portion under contract, the County by Joe Meek.
Courts In tho few succeeding years.
Rev. C. E. Cline presented a reao-
with an ever Increasing source o f lutlon asking for a state appropria-
reqenue from state aad county funds, tlon for funds sufficient to erect a
w ill be able to Improve the high- status o f Meek on the grounds, which
ways to every man’s door.
eras adopted, and as s committee to
The budget o f county expenditures present the mater to the next bl-
for this year provides fo r s road tax ennlal session of the legislature the
o f 150,403, besides various special follow in g were appointed:
T. T.
appropriations for roads and bridges. Goer, Chas. B. Morres, C. H. Canfield,
I am Informed and have reason to J. D. Lee, Geo.H. Himes. P. H. D’Arcy
believe, that as near as It can be and A. N. Bush,
estimated without
painstaking
»«arch o f the records o f expendi
LETTER FROM RUTH GILBERT
tures. that not lsaa than 935,000 la
ths annual requirement on the 45
My dear Mrs. Evans— Your letter ntg]
miles o f road listed for paving, to
keep it in repair. I f any o f your came the day before the boys landed to i
readers have attempted to pass over and I am so sorry I haven’ t h a d 1
these roads let them be the judge« tim e to w rite before this, though!
as to the evidence o f the loss of this it was only yesterday that they were
allowed to come to the city.
j
135,000 annual expenditure.
We joke them about all being
M
Tncreaeea neavy tra ffic w ill neces
sitate an Increased annual expendi such big huskies that they broke day
will be present in a body, and tbe
ture for patching the roads and ra- the de-cootislng plant down. At any
pastor w ill speak from tha sermon
planking the bridges.
Hard sur rate, they had only Just started the
topic,
"Mothers."
This w ill be .a
faced bridges as w ell as roads w ill sanitary process when the plant >
splendid service.
Come out and
broke
and
It
delayed
the
givin
g
of
be practically free from expense for
hear it.
upkeep for a generation, and a one- pauses to the boys some twenty-four
In the* evening at 9 o’cloek the
m ill tax levy baaed on the present hours, both to their disappointment
pastor
w ill speak again on "The Call
county valuation would more than and that of their friends ln New
of
a
Lost
Soul.”
suffice to pay interest on the bonds. York.
Other
services
for Sunday are:
Oh, but they a re ths biggest fo l
In s subsequent article, with your
Bible
echool
10.
permission, I expect to deni with the lows I have ever seen. A rils and
Christian Endeavor 7.
■>
county’s liab ilities and resources, Joe seem tw ice as big as they did
Mld
week
prayer
meeting
every
and the plans* fo r retirin g the bonds at borne, aad as for Leonard G ow er,'
he's os big as a moose, in foot he Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock.
as they mature.
D. I. Asbury.
Tbe county oonference o f Christian
was standing for three minutes by
churches
o f Yamhill county w ill mset
Grover H iggins before Grover rec- -
ognjsed him and then somebody had
to Introduce them.
Rev. and Mrs. Charles Rep] ogle,
"T h e
Newberg
Expeditionary
who «pent fiv e years among the Es Forces In New York City,” as we call
kimo Indiana ln d teaks at a point the bunch that has been through
WORDS OF APPRECIATION
100 miles north o f tho A rtie Circle, here, ere planning a big re-union
visited ln Newberg Wednesday with there at home some time in the fu-j
the Vernen T. Hlnshaw fam ily and ture, and talk over tke w ild times
a vary dear and loving child has
others.
ws had. in s realy big city.
been called from ns. Naturally we
They took part in the chapel ex
Last evening A rils, Clarence, Leo- are sorely bereaved, yet tbe many
ercises at the college in the morning nard, Grover, a Mr». Roes, from Sa- words of sympathy and the kindly
and in tha afternoon gave n talk to lem, Sadie Hubbard and mysalf all actions extended by friends are very
the students, showing by the use o f had such a nice time at Churchill's com forting. F or these and ths very
lantern elides, the program that has aad if the hoys can some in again beautiful floral offerings we wish
been made among the Bsklmoe In Saturday we w ill go to a real show, to express our sin cere appreciation
the way o f education aad manner at some place. Carl Conrad came on and
livin g, whleh Is nothing short at the same boat with A rils and I had Parents aad Relatives o f V irg il Oe-
marvelous.
a phone sail from him yesterday but
wald Keeney, Deceased.
Newberg. He M l la d
the lyceum program ft
ike past and h t h a
aad entertaining mask
A t the meeting o f tbe city cannai»
Monday night whan the nrdlnaaaa
calling for bonding jitneys was an
nounced for third reading by acting
Mgyor W. W . Silver, and remarks,
no one responded fo r or against its
passage, bat on rol leali thera wan
not.a vote recorded In its favor.
The war o f competition between
tbe two bus linee operating between
Newberg and Portland goes on
m errily and the business they am
doing Is making a heavy cut In ih »
Southern Pacific pa manger fora re-
PRUNE OUTLOOK HOT AS
PBHowsaro a s
m ig h t
b *
Reports of the outlook for tho
coming prune crop that are coming
in are not as hopeful as might be,
although it Is s little early to flgura
wjtta any degree of certainty.
G. A. Dearborn, who was in from
Dundee Wednesday, said he thought
thbre might be 25 per cent of a nor
mal crop, especially on the younger
trees.
He said many old trees
bloomed but little and the leaves era
very slow in coming out.
W. E. Williams, of Springbrook,
says- he w ill have a good crop o f
French prunes, but his Italians w ill
be very shy.
Tbe weather was not at all favor
able for pollenixing this season, and
with the heavy crop last year, coup-
led with two dry seasons, seems to-
( have drawn heavily on tbe vitality*
of the tress.
1 The price was never so good. r:m-
ning as high as 15 cent? tnd better.
and those who do have a fair crop
will reap a rich harvest'
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BOY SCOUTS W IN
The Boy Scouts are feeling jubi-
,M t ov„ the defeat of the w<M)t
chehalem ball te. m ln a
playad
Wednesday> the
being 4 to *
. ,K .
_________
Tuesday, June 3. an election w ill
be held for voting oa a number o f
road bonding propositions and other
measures, though but little Interest
is being manifested. A t least thera
is scarcely any election folk locally.
Probably more Interest may be
shows, later.